Engineering Technician Employment

Engineering technicians held 478,000 jobs in 2002.
204,000 of these were electrical and electronics engineering technicians, as
indicated by the following tabulation.

Electrical and electronic
engineering technicians

204,000

Civil engineering technicians

92,000

Industrial engineering
technicians

62,000

Mechanical engineering
technicians

55,000

Electro-mechanical
technicians

31,000

Environmental engineering
technicians

19,000

Aerospace engineering and
operations technicians

15,000

About 39 percent of all engineering technicians worked
in manufacturing, mainly in the computer and electronic equipment,
transportation equipment, and machinery manufacturing industries. Another 20
percent worked in professional, scientific, and technical service
industries, mostly in engineering or business services companies that do
engineering work on contract for government, manufacturing firms, or other
organizations.

In 2002, the Federal Government employed 11,000
engineering technicians. State governments employed 34,000, and local
governments employed 24,000.